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Tanystropheidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38195	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38195

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Tanystropheidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
family	Tanystropheidae	Gervais 1859

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Tanysitrachelia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Squamata	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1971
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Prolacertiformes	stated without evidence	Seiffert, 1975
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Prolacertiformes	stated with evidence	Chatterjee, 1980
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Protorosauria	stated with evidence	Chatterjee, 1986
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Protorosauria	implied	Carroll, 1988
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Prolacertiformes	stated with evidence	Senter, 2004
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Protorosauria	stated without evidence	Renesto, 2005
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Protorosauria	stated with evidence	Sennikov, 2011
Tanystropheidae	family	belongs to Archosauromorpha	stated with evidence	Ezcurra, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amotosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Augustaburiania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Dinocephalosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Gwyneddichnium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Langobardisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Macrochemus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Protanystropheus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Tanystropheus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Tanytrachelos ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1859	Tanystropheidae Gervais
1923	Tribelesodontidae Nopcsa
1928	Tribelesodontidae Nopcsa p. 187
1935	Macroscelosauridae Kuhn
1966	Tanystropheidae Kuhn p. 43
1971	Tanystropheidae Kuhn p. 11
1975	Tanystropheidae Seiffert p. 9
1980	Tanystropheidae Chatterjee p. 198

Year	Name and Author
1985	Tanystropheidae Benton p. 154
1986	Tanystropheidae Chatterjee pp. 309-311
1988	Tanystropheidae Carroll
2004	Tanystropheidae Senter p. 260
2005	Tanystropheidae Renesto p. 378
2011	Tanystropheidae Sennikov
2016	Tanystropheidae Ezcurra

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Nopcsa B. F. (1928) The genera of reptiles, Palaeobiologica 1, 163-188

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105

Seiffert J. (1975) Upper Jurassic lizards from central Portugal, Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22, 7-85

Chatterjee S. (1980) Malerisaurus, A New Eosuchian Reptile from the Late Triassic of India, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 291, 163-200

Benton M. J. (1985) Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 2, 97-164

Chatterjee S. (1986) Malerisaurus langstoni, a new diapsid reptile from the Triassic of Texas\r\n, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6 4, 297-312

Senter P. (2004) Phylogeny of Drepanosauridae (Reptilia: Diapsida), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2 3, 257-268 doi:10.1017/S1477201904001427

Renesto S. (2005) A new specimen of Tanystropheus (Reptilia Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and the ecology of the genus, Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 111 3, 377-394

Sennikov A. G. (2011) New tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Europe, Paleontological Journal 45 1, 90-104

Ezcurra M. D. (2016) The phylogenetic relationships of basal archosauromorphs, with an emphasis on the systematics of proterosuchian archosauriforms, PeerJ 4, e1778

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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